Sylvie and Tim are allowed to go back to the house to live while it is still a crime scene. When the cops arrive, Tim is swinging a bloody knife and Sylvie is cowering in the closet. Now he's hauled out of retirement by the local sheriff (J.T. Silent Fall (1994) Plot Keywords. The psychological drama is provided by the fact that not even Jake can entice Tim to communicate what he has or has not seen regarding the crime. 1 of 1 found this relevant Relevant? He attempts to piece together the chronology of the murder, suspecting that Tim interrupted a fight between his parents and an intruder. The story is set in motion after the brutal murder of a South African doctor who is on the brink of discovering a break through generic AIDS drug. There is, for example, the solution to the murders, which stars little Tim in a performance by an autistic character so remarkable that it makes Dustin Hoffman's work in "Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013.
Sylvie tearfully tries to kill Jake again to stop other people from learning about her secret, but is persuaded not to do so by Tim who speaks with his own voice for the first time. She eventually warms to Jake's efforts, but is concerned when she learns he was implicated in the Jake gradually befriends Tim. Fandango FANALERT® Sign up for a FANALERT® and be the first to know when tickets and other exclusives are available in your area.
ENTER CITY, STATE OR ZIP CODE GO. "Silent Fall" has a torturously constructed plot, but the solution to the mystery has been right there all along.
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Jake is able to trigger Tim's memory so that Tim mimics the voices he heard on the night of the murder by using the trigger phrase "God Damn," which were the first words Tim heard from the murder.
Tim's sister, Sylvie, is protective of him. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing Silent Fall near you. Walsh, playing a nice guy for a change).The parents of Sylvie and Tim have been found brutally slashed to death in their bedroom. Sheriff Mitch Rivers threatens to use drugs to get Tim to talk about the murder and Dr. Rene Harlinger successfully hypnotizes Tim into breaking down a locked door. 1 of 1 found this relevant Relevant? Walsh. The film was directed by Roger Hawkins.. 1 of 1 found this relevant Relevant? An autistic boy witnesses his parents' double murder. Tim's sister, Sylvie, is protective of him. She saw the killer, a man who escaped before she could ID him.The cops use pretty sloppy procedure on the case. older sister younger brother.
At first, Jake thinks that Tim is trying to communicate by cutting up playing cards, but Sylvie reveals that Tim is good at mimicking voices. She eventually warms to Jake's efforts, but is concerned when she learns he was implicated in the su daughter raped by father. She fails, and instead panickedly paralyzes Jake and throws him into an icy lake to drown him. "Silent Fall" is a thriller about an autistic little boy who witnesses the murder of his parents. The Dreyfuss character has retired from treating children after a child died while under his care. Tim mimics the police chief's voice through the phone to lure Sylvie to the police station and pulls Jake out of the lake while she is away. Tim Warden, a boy with autism, has supposedly witnessed his parents' double murder.
Sort By: Showing all 40 plot keywords. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Yes No. It was actually Sylvie who killed her parents because her father had raped her repeatedly and was trying to do the same to Tim, and her mother was aware of the abuse and stayed silent the entire time. The Silent Fall is a 2007 South African drama film set in and around Cape Town, focusing on the AIDS problem of Africa. Yes No. The police chief, seeing this as proof of Tim's strength, concludes that Tim was the murderer, after finding photographs showing that Tim's father was molesting him.